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• Prosecutors seeking restitution for families of 34 killed in Conception dive boat fire

  11-07-2024 21:03 via ocregister.com
  
  By Stefanie Dazio and Jaimie Ding
  LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors are seeking restitution for the families of 34 people killed in a scuba dive boat fire in 2019 that was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history.
  A judge will determine the amount on Thursday during a hearing in federal court in Los Angeles. The proceeding comes nearly five years after the Sept. 2, 2019, tragedy off the central California coast, which prompted changes to maritime regulations, congressional reform and
  
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• Rats. When rodents invade not just your garden … but your car.

  02-08-2024 16:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Q. The rats have been getting into my car engine and chewing the wires. How can I keep them out?
  Welcome to the club! All our cars have been invaded by rats, and my daughter just spent a couple hundred dollars to repair some damaged wires. They can even get inside the passenger compartment. Imagine driving along and a rat scurries across your dashboard!
  Prevention, in this case, involves making your car less attractive to rats.  Do not keep food in your car!  Remove any food wrappers o
  
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• Forecasts showing promise for solid surf during US Open of Surfing

  02-08-2024 16:13 via ocregister.com
  
  For surf contests, it’s all about the timing – and things are looking swell for the upcoming Lexus US Open of Surfing, which starts competition Saturday, Aug. 3 in Huntington Beach.  
  Had the US Open of Surfing run this week – the event typically gets underway the last week of July – surfers would have had to compete in meager 2- to 3-foot surf all week, with a likely lackluster finish for the mega competition.
  But organizers pushed the event’s start becau
  
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• Hooray, unions lose long battle to destroy ride-sharing in California

  02-08-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  The California Supreme Court deserves two cheers for its unanimous decision last month upholding the constitutionality of Proposition 22 – the 2020 ballot initiative that exempted ride-sharing and delivery drivers from the state’s ban on independent contracting and provided drivers with a few benefits. The ruling is a huge win for the gig economy, thus allowing Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and others to continue offering their valuable services.
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• Why is there a tiny red light on the traffic signal? A camera?

  02-08-2024 15:16 via ocregister.com
  
  Q. Hey Honk: I noticed this small red light down low on a traffic signal at Crown Valley and Marguerite parkways in Mission Viejo. Looks like a camera. What’s it for?
  – Paul DeSimone, Mission Viejo
  A. Called an “enforcement light,” it helps the deputies who patrol your town nab red-light runners.
  “It’s a tool we give the (Orange County) Sheriff’s Department to help them to do their jobs,” said Brett Canedy, a transportation analyst for the cit
  
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• Kamala Harris’ surging poll numbers: temporary or sustainable?

  02-08-2024 15:06 via ocregister.com
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris’ first two weeks as a presidential candidate should give her campaign – and Democrats – quite a few reasons to be optimistic. 
  Since replacing President Biden as the Democratic nominee, polls have shown a surge in support for Harris, particularly in the all-important swing states. Whether it lasts through November, however, remains to be seen.
  Indeed, Harris has erased Trump’s lead in battleground states, with the vice president now sligh
  
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• Christen Press makes long-awaited return as Angel City defeats San Diego on PKs

  02-08-2024 06:52 via ocregister.com
  
  FULLERTON — All eyes were on the sideline whenever the Angel City Football Club’s reserves went to do their warm-ups.
  The only question everyone likely had was when would Christen Press get her chance to enter the game.
  The moment finally happened deep into regulation of Thursday night’s NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup game against San Diego Wave FC.
  Press, who had spent more than two seasons on the season-ending injury list, came on in the 89th minute to a loud roar from the
  
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• ‘Real Housewives of Orange County’ swings from dirty dancing to fancy pantsing

  02-08-2024 06:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Emily Simpson, Tamra Judge and Jenn Pedranti are dancing on the bar, drinking vodka straight from the bottle, and spraying each other with seltzer from the soda gun as “The Real Housewives of Orange County” do the usual girls’ night out stuff at The Boulevard in Costa Mesa.
  But Gina Kirschenheiter is ignoring all that for a much bigger problem.
  “Why would you tell them all that? I told you not to,” she whispers to newest housewife Katie Ginella.
  “You’re
  
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• Hunter Strickland allows game-tying homer in 9th and Angels lose in 10

  02-08-2024 06:32 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — It took only two save opportunities for Hunter Strickland to blow one.
  The veteran right-hander got both ninth-inning leads after the Angels traded veterans Carlos Estévez and Luis Garcia, and on Thursday night he gave up a game-tying two-run homer in the Angels’ 5-4, 10-inning loss to the Colorado Rockies.
  The Angels were an out away from a victory when Strickland allowed a homer to Jake Cave.
  The Rockies got their automatic runner home in the top of the 10th with t
  
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• Olivier Giroud ready to get to work with LAFC

  02-08-2024 06:25 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Destiny flirted with delivering Olivier Giroud to the L.A. Galaxy in 2020.
  Four years before the iconic French striker opted to head further north up the 110 and sign with the Los Angeles Football Club as a Designated Player, Giroud informed the Galaxy that he wasn’t quite ready to join MLS – knowing someday he would be.
  Rather than replacing Zlatan Ibrahimović as the centerpiece of the Galaxy, Giroud picked the Swede’s brain about the league and L.A.
  T
  
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• Photos: Preparing the field of play for the women’s gymnastics finals

  02-08-2024 05:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Making sure everything is perfect, workers prepare the field of play for the floor exercise prior to the women’s gymnastics all-around and event finals in Barcy Arena during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.
  Workers prepare the field of play for the vault prior to the women’s gymnastics all-around and event finals in Barcy Arena during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Orange County Register/ SCNG)
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• Del Mar horse racing consensus picks for Friday, August 2, 2024

  02-08-2024 04:29 via ocregister.com
  
  The consensus box of Del Mar horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Friday, August 2, 2024.
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• Santa Margarita football moves home games from Saddleback College to Trabuco Hills High

  02-08-2024 04:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Santa Margarita’s football team will play its five home games at Trabuco Hills High, a sudden change of venue for the Eagles.
  The school informed team parents Thursday that the home games that had been scheduled for Saddleback College will now be played at Trabuco Hills, which is 5.6 miles from the Santa Margarita campus while Saddleback College is 9 miles away.
  California community colleges charge a fee for the usage of their facilities. Santa Margarita president Andy Sulick said the
  
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• The Audible: On the Olympics, USC and UCLA in the Big Ten, and the Dodgers’ struggles

  02-08-2024 03:35 via ocregister.com
  
  Jim Alexander: I am reminded this week of how lucky those of us in the workforce are who work at home, have a TV right next to our desk and have any sort of interest at all in Olympic sports. Already today I’ve watched Simone Biles reassert her status as the world’s best all-around female gymnast, and watched a good amount of 3-on-3 basketball (the U.S. women’s squad, featuring Dearica Hamby, seems quite good, the men – including Rick Barry’s kid and, until he was h
  
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• Robbery of Secret Service agent returning to Tustin from Biden event in LA gets man 6 years

  02-08-2024 03:27 via ocregister.com
  
  A Los Angeles man has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years in prison for the robbery of a Secret Service agent who was returning to Tustin after working at a fundraiser for President Joe Biden in Los Angeles in June.
  Two other men charged with the robbery were ordered to stand trial following a preliminary hearing on Thursday, August 1.
  Bertran Claude Bell, 39, pleaded guilty on Monday, July 29 to robbery with a sentencing enhancement for being armed with a gun in the commission of a fe
  
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• Horse racing: Bob Baffert horses in spotlight at Del Mar and Saratoga

  02-08-2024 02:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Sometimes, it’s Bob Baffert’s world and we’re just betting on it.
  Like this week:
  • Friday, Baffert will be in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to see Justify, his 2018 Triple Crown winner, headline this year’s class of honorees at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony. Justify is the sixth Baffert-trained horse in the Hall of Fame, joining Silver Charm, Silverbulletday, Point Given, American Pharoah and Arrogate. Baffert himself became a Hall o
  
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• US recognizes opposition candidate as winner of Venezuela’s presidential election

  02-08-2024 02:37 via ocregister.com
  
  By REGINA GARCIA CANO, GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
  CARACAS, Venezuela — The U.S. government on Thursday recognized Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González as the winner of the South American country’s presidential election, discrediting the results announced by electoral authorities who declared President Nicolás Maduro the victor.
  “Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezu
  
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• Orange County football preview: Ranking the Top 10 running backs for 2024

  02-08-2024 02:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowDan Albano ranks the Top 10 running backs in Orange County going into the 2024 high school football season:
  TOP 10 RUNNING BACKS
  1. Quaid Carr, Servite: The San Diego State-committed senior ascends to the No. 1 spot with his versatility and finishing kick to 2023. Carr (6-0, 190) powered the Friars to a runner-up finish in CIF-SS Division 2 by rushing for 1,201 yards and 17 TDs and adding 27 receptions fo
  
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• Rams’ offensive line injuries are starting to mount

  02-08-2024 02:30 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Not even a week and a half into training camp, four members of the Rams’ starting offensive line have dealt with various levels of injuries.
  A toe issue sidelined right guard Kevin Dotson for half a practice of work, though he was able to return the next day. Left tackle Alaric Jackson has missed the last three days of practice with an ankle injury, though head coach Sean McVay said the hope is that Jackson can return for Sunday’s joint practice with the Chargers.
  
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• Trump is making his 2024 campaign about Harris’ race, whether Republicans want him to or not

  02-08-2024 02:19 via ocregister.com
  
  By STEVE PEOPLES and MATT BROWN
  NEW YORK — Donald Trump has found tremendous success from the very first moment he stepped onto the presidential stage by stoking racial animus.
  Democrats expressed new outrage this week at the former president’s derisive and false charge that Vice President Kamala Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian heritage, only recently “turned Black” for political gain. Some Republicans — even from within Trump’s own campaign — seem
  
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• USC football kicks off fall camp: Top storylines to watch

  02-08-2024 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — The turf on the new practice field has been laid and set, a swath of green glistening beyond the red fence that surrounds USC’s Howard Jones Field, construction on a brand-new football facility yielding a first gift that’s primed and ready for the start of fall camp.
  “This is like Christmas morning for us,” head coach Lincoln Riley said Wednesday, addressing the start of camp in front of a room full of media in Heritage Hall. “So, we can’t
  
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• Freddie Freeman and Chelsea Freeman provide update on son’s illness

  02-08-2024 01:48 via ocregister.com
  
  In an update posted to Instagram, Chelsea Freeman revealed that 3-year-old Maximus is dealing with a rare neurological condition.
  The youngest son of Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman has been diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, according to the post from Maximus’ mother.
  Maximus was originally hospitalized just over a week ago when he began having trouble standing, walking and eating. Chelsea Freeman posted to Instagram that Maximus had gone through tests which led to a dia
  
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• Striking video game performers protest unregulated AI use at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank

  02-08-2024 01:06 via ocregister.com
  
  By SARAH PARVINI and KAITLYN HUAMANI
  More than 300 video game performers and Hollywood actors picketed in front of the Warner Bros. Studios building on Thursday to protest against what they call an unwillingness from top gaming companies to protect union voice actors and motion capture workers equally against the unregulated use of artificial intelligence.
  Standing before the crowd, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, national executive director of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television
  
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• Angels’ Mike Trout to miss rest of season with another tear in his knee

  02-08-2024 01:05 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Mike Trout added another crushing development to a career that has gone tragically off the rails in recent years.
  The Angels’ embattled star now has a second tear in his left meniscus, leading to another knee surgery that will cost him the rest of the season, the team announced on Thursday.
  “He’s devastated,” General Manager Perry Minasian said when revealing the news. “I was too, to be honest with you. I’m not the emotional type but being in t
  
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• 3 accused of murdering tourist at Fashion Island enter not guilty pleas

  02-08-2024 01:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Three Los Angeles County men accused of carrying out a deadly armed robbery at Fashion Island pleaded not guilty on Thursday, Aug. 1, to special circumstances murder charges for the slaying of a 68-year-old New Zealand woman who was dragged to her death under a getaway car at the upscale shopping center.
  A defense attorney during a brief hearing in a Santa Ana courtroom entered not guilty pleas on behalf of Leroy Ernest Joseph McCrary, Malachi Eddward Darnell and Jaden Cunningham, all three of w
  
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• What to watch: Sha’Carri Richardson makes Olympic debut Friday

  02-08-2024 00:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Sha’Carri Richardson makes her long-awaited Olympic debut as track and field rev up Friday at the Paris Olympics. Excitement in men’s soccer and tennis round out an action-packed day.
  Here is a guide of what to look out for:
  Richardson’s Olympic debut
  Richardson missed the Tokyo Games because of a positive marijuana test at the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials. She will debut as the favorite in the women’s 100-meter dash in a first-round heat that starts at 11
  
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• Swanson: USC football offers no brash predictions entering Big Ten era

  02-08-2024 00:51 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — How do you think the USC football team is going to fare this season?
  Yeah, I don’t know either.
  Neither do the Trojans, if we’re being honest.
  Gone is the swashbuckling bravado of the 2023 preseason, the assuredness of a team that expected and was expected to compete for a national title. That would enter the season ranked No. 6 in preseason polling after going 11-3 in head coach Lincoln Riley’s first season, a splashy entrance and compelling return for USC
  
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• At 94 years old, she keeps Newport Beach police officers fed

  02-08-2024 00:48 via ocregister.com
  
  After Dotty McDonald logged some 2,000 hours as a volunteer with the Newport Beach Police Department, many on late-night ride-alongs in a patrol car, she noticed that officers frequently had little time to grab a meal while on the clock.
  So McDonald, now 94 years old, made it her mission to keep them fed.
  McDonald got to know the officers well, volunteering with the police force after she became a widow in 2015. In addition to ride alongs, she’s helped surveil houses left empty while the o
  
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• Dodgers’ Gavin Lux has ditched ‘safe swings’ for ‘doing damage’

  02-08-2024 00:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Gavin Lux is learning to trust again.
  He was minding his own business one spring afternoon last year, running the bases during a Cactus League game, when his right knee betrayed him. The ACL and LCL had to be repaired by a surgery that kept him out of a batter’s box for the next year.
  Back on the field this season, Lux’s knee was fixed but he still had to recover mentally. His knee might have been healthy but it took longer for his confidence in that knee to return.
  The result were w
  
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• Are California homebuyers really going to pay Realtor commissions?

  02-08-2024 00:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Come Aug. 17, California home shoppers will be asked to sign a five-page Buyer Representation and Broker Compensation Agreement or BRBCA if they want to engage with a particular Realtor to find and buy a home.
  Oy vey!
  The agreement outlines responsibilities — exactly what the agent is going to do to assist the buyer in finding a home. There is also a compensation component.
  These changes are, in part, the result of a proposed settlement agreement between the National Association of Realtor
  
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